Rudgate Ruby Mild Beer Review

A dark beer with immediate impact, within the first sip the distinct dark mild style shines through strongly. This is, as it states, a deep and dramatically ruby beer.

Rudgate Ruby Mild - great news for Rudgate and dark milds

The full body is laced with burnt flavours, a dash of coffee ambles through the nutty aftertaste along with a touch of bitterness.

It’s also sweet and fruity with a rich body, which blends seamlessly with it’s nuttiness.

It is a very balanced ale, but not because the flavours seamlessly intertwine, but because each sip ebbs and flows between its complexities.

One of my favourite beers at the moment is Midnight Bell, a strong-for-a-mild and very tasty beer, so in a similar category to Ruby Mild. Pitching these together, I’d be pushed to pick a favourite. They are both beers contributing (hopefully) to a resurgence of an underrated and little catered for beer style, and both add a little extra ‘oomph’ in the process.

Ruby is a good beer, interesting to drink and a fine dark mild. Best beer in the UK? Not in my opinion, for me there are just more compelling beers out there.

But don’t let that put you off, it’s well worth a try, and a big congratulations to the team in Tockwith for their GBBF success.